Censoring the art still creates great art

American artist Chad Wys has expressed himself by adding his own art to already existing art pieces. His controversial art is featured by using tape and paint to “mess up” the original pieces.

Sculptures are in a way “brutalized” by colorful painting splashed all over them, and the paintings are also marked with tape or black paint so the whole object won’t show.It looks rather messy, but in the same way modern.

Another similar artistic act was done by covering random lightning city billboards with smashed mosquitoes.

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Daughter, sister, wife, mother and writer. I spend half of my free time writing and the other half reading contemporary literature. I like to start my day with half an hour of yoga and then I head over to my desk with a cup of green tea to start working on my sci fi novel. On weekends I like to head over to the country side for a breath of fresh air and to catch up with my mom.

@Kaitlin I’ve never heard of Marcel Duchamp, I haven’t seen this be done before. When your art is abstract, the abstraction should at least be original in the ‘humble’ opinion of a pompous wanker. Humble my arse.

@Gloria It would be vandalism if he covered the original painting, which would be in a museum somewhere, whereas these are photocopies. You’re a self righteous hypocrite & you don’t know what art really is if you think any kind of art can be judged as inadequate.

@Kaitlin: while Duchamp certainly was one of the first artists to embrace the notion of readymades (or found objects) as a concept unto itself — mainly as a critique of art in general, which was the motivation for most Dadaists — I hardly think it’s fair to label all readymades thenceforth has being derivative; that disfranchises an awful lot of work that has been created since. I’m not critiquing what fine art can be — as Duchamp did nearly a century ago — but am pointing to a whole host of other issues concerning consumerism (to an extent) and object ownership; not to mention notions of aestheticism and debates about high versus low art. I invite you to think more deeply about my work and what it might mean to you. On a slightly different topic: I would argue that most art is derivative.

@Gloria: you raise some interesting concerns. What is vandalism and who judges when it occurs? How interesting it would be if someone vandalized my work… then it would be a “vandal” of an already “vandalized” work. How bizarre! But seriously, I do have the utmost respect for other artists’ work. But, as Tom graciously pointed out, these things that I’ve “vandalized” are not the originals; far from them! The true vandalism takes place when the company mass-markets the likeness of the original.